Nicole Keaton Hart has a deep background in cyber security, enterprise strategy, large complex system development and disruptive technology integration. Serving as the Board Chair for Visiting Nurse Health Systems, a P&L healthcare company, she brings to board service strategy, digital transformation, technology, and cybersecurity expertise underpinned by a keen understanding of risk oversight and the ability to recognize sound risk management strategies. She can see where technology risk can erode an organization’s ability to meet business objectives. Most notably, as an example, in a mere six months, she took a situation where there were over 1000 unresolved audit findings and guided the company to take a strategic rather than tactical approach in developing corporate risk management strategies for this Fortune 500 firm in the financial services industry. The outcome was board audit committee and regulatory approval of the strategy which when implemented, successfully reduced risk allowing the firm to maintain its conservative public brand recognition and preserve shareholder value.

As an example of how Nicole can add value at the board level as a cybersecurity strategy expert, as Chief Information Officer, she guided Fulton County Government, one of the most populous counties in the US, in preparing for Superbowl LIII with an integrated cybersecurity and risk management strategy, garnering adoption and broad execution across 170 public and private sector entities including the National Football League and Department of Homeland Security. Resulting from Nicole’s proactive risk mitigation and governance oversight, the county demonstrated business resiliency to increased global cyberattacks by maintaining a low cyber risk rating throughout the Superbowl LIII event.

Nicole’s business operations expertise includes overseeing the development and execution of enterprise technology strategies to facilitate cyber and technology risk evaluation during M&A pre-acquisition actions, cloud migration, and digital transformation in financial services, consumer packaged goods, critical infrastructure, petrochemical and software development industries.

As Chief Strategy Officer for Microsoft’s $20 billion cybersecurity business, she oversees the development and execution of global digital identities and governance of Generative AI (GenAI) systems strategies. She has held key C-level roles such as the former Chief Information Officer for Fulton County Government and Senior Vice President for SunTrust Bank, now Truist Financial Corp.

Nicole is a certified risk management (CRISC) and governance of enterprise information technology (CGEIT) professional and additionally holds an Executive Master of Management Information Technology from Georgia State University. She is currently pursuing an Executive Doctorate of Business Administration from LeBow College of Business, Drexel University. When time allows, she enjoys century road bike rides, which span one hundred miles.